📖 Определения и значения для слова contempt
📒 the feeling that somebody/something is without value and deserves no respect at all
- with contempt She looked at him with contempt.
- I shall treat that suggestion with the contempt it deserves.
- beneath contempt His treatment of his children is beneath contempt (= so bad that it is not even worth feeling contempt for).
📒 a lack of worry or fear about rules, danger, etc.
- The firefighters showed a contempt for their own safety.
- His remarks betray a staggering contempt for the truth (= are completely false).
📒 the crime of refusing to obey an order made by a court; not showing respect for a court or judge
- He could be jailed for two years for contempt.
- in contempt She was held in contempt for refusing to testify.
📒 knowing somebody/something very well may cause you to lose respect for them/it